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Covid is the black mirror

We're in wartime-like circumstances requiring significant sacrifice. An interesting side-effect of this is the "new normal". Window of acceptable behaviour has changed dramatically in one week. Things like open offices, UBI, socialized medicine and general innovation Covid-19 has rapidly accelerated the virtual office trend. Many will agree that open offices are contrary to focus. The cost of real estate is not cheap. If businesses can prove that they can function reasonably at home - during a pandemic. Then when people aren't anxious I imagine productivity could be much higher. Moving operational tools to the cloud was already in style but there wasn't a tremendous urgency. Covid19 will be the #1 driver of an organizational digital transformation. Laptop and asset procurement With so many people reliant on the gig economy and hourly work for basic survival it's an interesting time. As CERB comes to an end I hope everyone with have rental properties, are...